Dead Man Walking

lxvii.

Hunter shot the two people guarding the doors. He had Rick, Daryl and a few other people behind him. He's never met the rest of them so he doesn't know their names, he only knows they're all on the same side. Hunter opens the door and they start sweeping the first floor in formation.

"You signal if they're already inside. We'll be there," Rick tells the two guys. They nod and run off.

"Come on. Let's find them guns."

The three of them continued searching for the Saviors guns. Dwight was their inside man and had given them a list of where everything was. But as they searched they couldn't find anything.

Hunter met up with Daryl and gave him a questioning look. Daryl shakes his head, "Nah, I ain't find anything."

Hunter sighed and they continue walking until they found Rick. Who pointed his gun at them, "It's not on this floor," Hunter tells his brother.

"Only option is up," Rick replies.

"High ground. Good cover," Daryl nods.

Rick tucks the map into his shirt pocket, "Yeah, I'd put them up there, too."

"Stairs," Daryl pointed out. He tried to open the door but it was locked. Daryl took a step back and kicked it a few times but it didn't budge.

Hunter remembered seeing an elevator a couple halls down, "Follow me."

The three of them ran back toward where they started. He searched through the halls before finding the elevator. Hunter jumped across the opening and grabbed onto the metal bar and slowly started making his way up. If it wasn't for the adrenaline and the pain medication he wouldn't be able to do this right now.

When he got to the top he got to his knees and grabbed onto some support before reaching his hand down for Daryl and helped him up. Next they grabbed Rick's hand and pulled him up.

Once all three were up they pulled out their weapons and made their way to the hallway but that was empty too, "Last floor. The guns have gotta be up here."

"He said they'd be here," Daryl responds.

"Everything else he passed you is checking out," Rick tells him.

"That guy's a piece of shit," Daryl says.

"Those guns get to the Sanctuary, they could cut through those walkers and free up an exit," Hunter announces, "We'll get this done faster if we split up. If I find the M2s, you find 'em, Rick finds 'em, we use them, hit the courtyard right then and there."

"End this quick."

Hunter nods and they split up from each other. Hunter walked down a dark hall way, his footsteps echoing off the walls. He clutched his flashlight in on hand, the beam of light swaying back and forth as he walked.

They needed to find these guns. They had to be here, there was no way Dwight had played them. As he walked, he couldn't shake the feeling that he was being watched. He constantly turned around, expecting to see someone or something lurking in the shadows. But each time, the hallway was empty.

He reached for the doorknob but he was tackled to the ground. He was punched in the face. Hunter kneaded the guy in the ribs, he switched them around so he was on top. He wrapped his hands around the guy's throat. But the guy's hands reached out and pushed on his eye.

Hunter let out a shout as a fist connected with his jaw, he fell to the ground and the Savior got on top of him. The guy landed a powerful punch to his Hunter's ribs, causing Hunter to grunt in pain. More punches were landed on his face before Hunter got his hand up to block incoming punches.